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4 Objectives Establish and assess the efficacy of a culturally-appropriated OT home treatment protocol for families caring for people with dementia Explore the possible influence of caregiver readiness CGR and care recipient CDR stage on the treatment effect

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18 Discussion OT home program as an effective treatment – Most measures showed positive trend – BPSD severity: related to the course of disease and medication BPSD-related distress was relieved to a greater extend in tx group – The goals of building up collaboration with and empowering the caregivers were achieved Preliminary results – Longer service duration may be needed follow-up & supportive intervention – Including more participants in various locations (representation)

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27 Conclusion The effectiveness of the OT home program is supported Caregivers and care-recipients at various stages along the course may be experiencing different challenges and needs – Further investigation into such issue may help identifying tailored services for the families caring for people with dementia

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30 Generalized estimated equated (GEE) Superiorities to the ordinary least squares approach – correct for clustering in the standard errors (robust standard errors) – use all available pairs even when some data are missing – various working correlations are available for choosing to better account for the dependency of observations Independent, exchangeable, autoregressive, unstructured, etc.